Bomber hits peacekeeping convoy in Somalia

No peacekeepers died but a number of people were wounded in the attack [Reuters]

A suicide bomber rammed a vehicle packed with explosives into an African peacekeeping convoy, killing at least two people in the Somali capital Mogadishu, officials have said.

The attack on Friday was claimed by al-Shabab fighters who carried out the deadly assault on a nearby UN base last month and another bombing in a Mogadishu market this week.

No peacekeepers died but a number of people were wounded in the attack.

Ambulance sirens wailed through the congested streets and a plume of black smoke billowed into the sky above the city near the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) base where 22 people were killed in an al-Shabaab assault last month.

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